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by cromwellian 8y ago
Two downvotes for pointing out that it asks for permission to translate, and that the feature is pretty important if you're traveling in a foreign country and don't speak the language?
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by cromwellian 8y ago
When I visit a website in a foreign language I've never translated before, Chrome asks my permission to translate the site, it doesn't do so automatically. You could argue they could give you more details on what it will do when y
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by cromwellian 8y ago
Facebook's behavior kind of goes beyond mere data collection tho. They have hired paid shills/astroturf orgs like Microsoft and Oracle did to go after rivals or plant fake stories. And then there's the Onavo VPN fiasco, where
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by cromwellian 8y ago
According to this reasoning, almost no 'journalists' are journalists, because almost all media is ad supported, therefore, they're all just advertisers. This reasoning would also say that an organization that doesn't sel
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by cromwellian 8y ago
It's weird how you blame them for slowing innovation, but you admit Email hadn't been fixed or improved for years, and Gmail was a step-change improvement in access to email, cost, storage, spam filtering, and filter management. A
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by cromwellian 8y ago
They own the most important and most profitable segment of the mobile browser market, so practically all mobile web sites are designed for Safari. Every startup is iOS/mobile Safari first.
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by cromwellian 8y ago
The OpenWeb seems to work pretty well, at least from the standpoint of not getting viruses or malware from it. You could argue about tracking users, but it’s not like the native Facebook iOS doesn’t collect lots of data on you.
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by cromwellian 8y ago
Shouldn't I have the choice? If you paid $1000 for a phone, and were using and enjoying this app, and suddenly, it can no longer be updated, because Apple says they want to 'protect' me, why can't I be given the control
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by cromwellian 8y ago
Would have been interesting for Ars to have asked them how their GPU differs from the IMGTec/PVR IP they acquired besides adding more cores, what did they change? They give the impression by saying it’s a custom GPU that it’s a from sc
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by cromwellian 8y ago
The search engine isn’t the only issue. I mean, the App Store allows Facebook and a bonanza of other privacy violating apps. Apple to some extent launders responsibility for extremely useful services that require or use personal data by out
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by cromwellian 8y ago
I have an iPhone and almost never use it. I use FB messenger, WhatsApp, Slack, and Discord for 99% of my contacts.
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by cromwellian 8y ago
It was only 2006 when I worked at Oracle, I moved to Google in 2009, it’s not like a sea change in sexual harassment reform happened between those years. Oracle was a worse environment than Google in many ways, this is not nostalgia. Politi
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by cromwellian 8y ago
By contrast, there is no shortage of people willing to work for Google. If the most ethical people with the strongest moral compass leave, then they may be replaced with people who have less aversion to working on military drone contracts,
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by cromwellian 8y ago
China is a large country with many regions so that’s a pretty big handwave, like saying ‘English is useless outside of North America. Not to mention the huge economic and culture importance of it in the future give that vasts amounts of cul
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by cromwellian 8y ago
I know, I’ve been to Hong Kong many times. Maybe you should take a look at the map, only part of Hong Kong is directly connected. Of course, there’s tons of bridges already that can be used. But remember, one justification for the US natio
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by cromwellian 8y ago
Smells like Regulatory capture by a competitor.
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by cromwellian 8y ago
A skeptic in me makes me suspicious that there isn’t another function for such bridges: making it easier to roll tanks into HK if there’s an uprising one day.
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by cromwellian 8y ago
Did any of the critics making unsubstantiated claims like this even bother to read the Working Group mailing lists where people are discussing the security and privacy requirements of these APIs? These specs are being developed in the open,
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by cromwellian 8y ago
Good point, and an excellent justification for the no-editorializing-policy! They should link that policy to this thread to show what happens to S/N when people editorialize for clickbait.
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by cromwellian 8y ago
Exactly. You can read the repetitive arguments over a document-web vs an application-web everywhere, just like I can read Android vs OSX, or Emacs vs VI everywhere. This has been going on for decades with no resolution. Often what I love ab
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by cromwellian 8y ago
Wouldn't a complete history of every App you're ever downloaded from the App Store be super useful to law enforcement to know which third parties to get a warrant for? Apple may not collect that much data, but they enable a platfo
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by cromwellian 8y ago
HackerNews is starting to become less and less useful for reading tech news as of late. I come here to read stuff that's interesting in tech/science/etc, because the signal-to-noise was great. The vast majority of comments on
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by cromwellian 8y ago
No, what we did was trade off one set of security problems to having dozens of clients for every TCP protocol (IRC, NNTP, SMTP, IMAP, FTP, WAIS, Gopher, fingerd, etc) with their own set of security flaws, but which had less oversight, and t
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by cromwellian 8y ago
The real risk of Google entering China, and possibly succeeding, is the a reverse-effect happening with regard to censorship globally. The theory is, by Google operating in China, it will help liberalize and open things up, that may have wo
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by cromwellian 8y ago
Reading this I got the immediate impresssion that his temperament isn’t very Googley and was a cultural mismatch from the beginning. His ego is really big and doesn’t seem be able to deal with being a small fish in a big sea.
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by cromwellian 8y ago
I’ll give you one example where the protobuf design helped out a lot: GWT Protobuffers. The GWT Compiler has a version of Protobufs that transpiles all of the protos into Overlay types of naked JSON objects. You get a statically typed Java
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by cromwellian 8y ago
BTW, if you look at the Jingdong video, they're not doing Kiva. Kiva was designed for human packers to bring human-sized shelves to the packager. Jingdong is doing what Musk talked about: A 3D space filling factory. They've build
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by cromwellian 8y ago
Not yet, but one self driving takes off, delivery drones are probably one of the first use cases to be used. Hell, they don't even have the 'unrestricted left turn' problem that cars have, because UPS already restricts its dr
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by cromwellian 8y ago
How many human beings do you need? Web search lists 90,000 fulfillment center employees at 25 fulfillment centers, so let's assume 3600 employees per warehouse. Amazon ships about 1million packages a day, so let's estimate 40,000
930.
by cromwellian 8y ago
That replaced mostly manual labor with mostly manual labor. The millions of people involved in the horse industry supply chain, went to cities and they and their descendants worked in factories. A horse required a lot of non-mass-produced i

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